Like The Red Sox And Yankees, Candidates Differ On Facial Hair

Republican operative John Kleinhans, who was clean-shaven when he was in the employ of Mark Boughton - think Yankees - and bearded now that he’s working for Sue Hatfield - think Red Sox. (Facebook)

It turns out that the Red Sox and Yankees aren’t the only employers that don’t see eye-to-eye on facial hair — so do candidates.

When Republican political operative John Kleinhans was a senior campaign adviser to Mark Boughton, the runner-up in the party’s primary for governor, he said his boss frowned on him growing a beard.

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Think, George Steinbrenner.

But now that he’s in the employ of Sue Hatfield, the GOP candidate for state attorney general from Pomfret in the Quiet Corner, deep in the heart of Red Sox Nation, the 28-year-old said he got his new boss’ blessing to go unshaven.